Monthly Archives: April, 2011

Integrity

  So there’s YES and there’s NO and as Peter Block points out Without your ability to say No, your Yes means nothing. It’s the fact that we can and do choose to say No – clearly, cleanly, authentically – that gives power to those times when we choose to say Yes. That’s not instinctive [...]

BEING YES IN THE WORLD

  The opposite of YES is not NO.   NO is a creative act. NO – as an authentic expression of denial or refusal – is one of the most powerful claims of our humanity.   NO asserts boundaries, re-enforces priorities, produces certainty. All of these things are wonderful things. In fact, the world craves [...]

Life is Created

  This is one of two essential principles I stand for in my work.   Nothing else works without this principle in place.   Many people I meet who are in leadership positions have mistakenly separated themselves from the source of their problems or challenges. They think that they are ‘in here’ (ie inside some [...]